The Blog of Ian Pace, pianist, musicologist, political animal. A place for thoughts, reflections, links, both trivial and not so trivial. Main website is at http://www.ianpace.com . Contact e-mail ian@ianpace.com.

A paedophile who fled to Holland over seven years ago to escape trial on child porn charges was jailed for 18 months at the Old Bailey today. Steven Smith, 37, a former chairman of the Paedophile Information Exchange which wants to legalise sex between adults and children, admitted publishing an obscene magazine and sending it through the post in 1982. The magazine, edited by Smith, was probably published inside the Home Office where he worked as a security-vetted machine supervisor, said Mr Jeremy Donne, prosecuting. It was sent to PIE members and contained letters and articles where people wrote about their experiences of sex with children and features advocating…